Description
Offered as a custom configuration of the Mac Pro “Quad Core” 3.2 Server (Mid-2012/Nehalem), but with major technical differences, the Mac Pro “Twelve Core” 3.06 Server (Mid-2012/Westmere) is powered by two 3.06 GHz Six Core 32-nm Xeon X5675 (Westmere) processors with a dedicated 256k of level 2 cache for each core and 12 MB of “fully shared” level 3 cache per processor.
By default, it is configured with 8 GB of 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM, two 1 TB (7200 RPM, 32 MB cache) 3Gb/s Serial ATA hard drives, an 18X dual-layer “SuperDrive” and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory.
Expansion includes two external 5.25″ “optical” bays (one free by default), four internal 3.5″ “cable-free, direct attach” hard drive bays (three free by default), and four PCIe 2.0 slots (one free PCIe 2.0 x16 slot and two free PCIe 2.0 x4 slots with the default single graphics card installed).
Ports include five USB 2.0 ports, four Firewire “800” ports, dual Gigabit Ethernet, two Mini DisplayPorts and a dual-link DVI port, among others. AirPort Extreme (802.11a/b/g/n) and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR is standard.
Please note that the “Mid-2012” Mac Pro Server models practically are identical to the “Mid-2010” Server models before them, but there are some differences in terms of specs and identifiers and EveryMac.com has documented them as their own models, accordingly.